Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts

In our LinkedIn live series, AIVA Live: In Session, Managing Director, Lauren Angeloni, gives a glimpse behind the massive effort and heart put into evaluating the creative projects submitted into the AIVA awards season after season. Join us to learn more about the lives and careers of our expert jurors and get some award-winning advice along the way. AIVA Managing Director Lauren Angeloni will be joined by Kim Brattain, the Founder & CEO of Kim Brattain Media. Kim Brattain founded her company in 2008 to create engaging videos, drawing on her 18 years as an Emmy Award-winning news anchor. Under her leadership, Kim Brattain Media has thrived, earning her recognition as one of the “50 Most Influential Women” in Mecklenburg County, NC, and one of Charlotte's “Crowns of Enterprise.” — The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) is an invitation-only body of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing organizations like Walt Disney Studios, Groove Jones, PepsiCo, McCann Health NY, Netflix, IBM, Deloitte Digital, LG, and WONGDOODY among many others. The AIVA sanctions all judging for the Communicator, w3 and Davey Awards. To learn more about the AIVA, visit aiva.org.

Congrats to Twelve Leg Marketing for their Davey Awards win with "I Paint Music"! 🎉 Learn how their creative ethos and partnership with artist Karen Mosbacher brought this award-winning piece to life. Full interview below and don't forget our Final Entry Deadline is TOMORROW! https://bit.ly/3XU5jpd

With over two decades in design and leadership, Mark Dingman blends imaginative design with strategic business acumen as Creative Director at the Millennium Agency. You can find out more about his journey and insights in the full interview below! If you want to have your work be seen by judges like Mark Dingman be sure to enter your work by our final entry deadline for the Davey Awards THIS Friday July 26th! https://bit.ly/4bODvWH

Small Desk, Big Ideas | Ep. 7 with Goodbeast is OUT NOW! Such a fun episode, we can't wait for you to watch it! Does your small team take on big, technical challenges? The Davey Awards honor work using Emerging Tech like augmented and virtual realities, the metaverse and more. Enter your best work before the Final Entry Deadline this Friday, July 26th. https://bit.ly/46aTqgW

Small Desk, Big Ideas returns, taking viewers inside the spaces and places where Davey Award-winning projects come to life. Follow Goodbeast Chief Experience Officer Kurt Roberts as he shows us his personal workshop and motherboard workstation for 2023 Best in Show immersive experience “Light up the Lawn, Light up a Life” for Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Watch the full video at the link below. Don't forget this week is the last chance to enter the Davey Awards! https://bit.ly/3LhMaWN

Small Desk, Big Ideas returns with Goodbeast Chief Experience Officer Kurt Roberts where we get to see the BTS of how his team created the 2023 Best in Show immersive experience “Light up the Lawn, Light up a Life” for Nationwide Children’s Hospital! Stay tuned for the full episode tomorrow to see where all the magic happens.

Lauren Angeloni here! Hope everyone is having a great Summer so far. It seems like many of you are traveling on vacation, hopefully recharging and energizing for what will be a busy Fall. We are already deep into planning our next season of the Communicator Awards, which I can’t wait to launch. We’re also headed into the Davey Awards' final deadline next week, so you still have some time to get your best work in. Also next week, I’m excited to see some of you in Boston for the AdAge Small Agency Conference. If you didn’t get our email about meeting up, please let me know! This week’s talking points brought to you by my missing Sous Vide Egg Bites: Many of us had a rocky start this morning, with fleets of grounded planes, snarled banking systems and, perhaps slightly less distressing, Starbucks mobile ordering going down, due to CrowdStrike’s massive outage, affecting Microsoft Systems. I think the breadth of the impact is still unfolding, but I hope that my aforementioned summer travelers are weathering the storm.  Also in the "uncomfortable tech" camp, an unsanctioned Volvo Group commercial generated entirely using AI got some attention this week, with the creator hitting Ad Age to give tips on harnessing the text-to-video platform Runway’s newest model, Gen-3. Marketing Dive published a report this week on the continuing trend of companies shelling out money on rebranding and redesigning packages rather than splashy ad campaigns. I imagine this is a divisive topic among my community, which is populated by many brand designers  and as many ad campaign geniuses. Speaking of rebranding, here is a huge one: Media.Monks announced this week that is is now simply “Monks” in an effort to represent more authentically the org’s core offerings, which are now reorganized around a marketing services and a technology services arm. Continuing the vibe from the Michael Cera’s Superbowl ad, L'Oréal is doubling down on entertaining branded content with a CeraVe Soap Opera, bringing melodrama to skin-care education. (via ADWEEK) In content I’m generally excited about, Apple TV + is releasing (today!) a docuseries Omnivore, which centers on the brilliant noma chef Rene Redzepi unpacking the full cultural context and impact of seemingly simple staple ingredients. I’m holding my breath on the fallout from the Paris Olympics Seine Swim stunt performed by Paris Mayor, Ann Hidalgo. Organizers have been plagued by complaints that the e coli contaminated river wasn’t being cleaned up quickly enough. The mayor wanted to prove that the Seine was ready for the world stage… i just hope this doesn’t end poorly. The unfortunate #jechiedanslaSeine trended on social media ahead of the swim, which I truly hope was all talk. See some of you in Boston next week and hope to see even more of you in the Davey Awards Submissions before next Friday's Deadline!

Join us on July 25th, 2024, from 1:00pm to 1:30pm EDT for AIVA Live: In Session, where Managing Director Lauren Angeloni offers a behind-the-scenes look at evaluating creative projects for the AIVA awards. Lauren will be joined by Kim Brattain, Emmy Award-winning news anchor and Founder & CEO of Kim Brattain Media, known for her influential work in media. Don’t miss this chance to learn from industry experts and get award-winning advice! RSVP at the link below! https://lnkd.in/e38w_N4h

Over the past two decades at the w3 Awards, it's become impossible to ignore the exponential growth of social media. It has become a platform for entertainment, news, information, shopping, gossip, and making connections around the world. To that end, we’ve turned to our jurors – who include creative and strategy leaders behind some of the biggest brands in social. We are proud to present our inaugural Social Media Trend Report, which features insights from our AIVA Jurors on current social media content and marketing trends– including what will make entries shine bright this season. View the full report at the link below! https://lnkd.in/dRut5AeY

“Our strong storytelling foundation combined with new technology gives our clients a groundbreaking creative edge,” says Nik Kleverov, the Emmy-grade storyteller and visionary behind Native Foreign. As part of our Visionaries series at the Davey Awards, we're proud to feature Native Foreign and their CEO Nik Kleverov. Nik’s leadership has driven his team to win numerous awards for their innovative work, from AI-driven campaigns to captivating live-action commercials. 📲 Head to the link below to read the full article and swipe to see some of their award-winning projects! https://vist.ly/3eaxe